There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.
There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.
The rate of profit. . . is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.
No one can ruin shows, but Internet trolls sure can make things miserable.
Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.
The most common form of terrorism in the U. S. A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.
. . . you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy
Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it's changing. It truly is. I'm optimistic but skeptical.
I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.
True fans can't ruin shows.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.
Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.